Dipped Butter Cookies

Chocolate Dipped Butter Cookies

Christmas Butter Cookies

Give me all the Christmas cookies, better yet dip them in chocolate! These soft, melt in your mouth butter cookies are the perfect Christmas Cookie for your holiday gifts and cookie swaps.

Christmas Butter cookies are perfect for shipping and can be made and frozen ahead of time, just dip and sprinkle after they have been defrosted to room temperature.

What is your favorite Christmas Cookie?

My husband loves a thumbprint or a crinkle cookie. My favorite are the butter spritz cookie, although I do have a love/hate relationship with the cookie press!

Christmas Butter Cookies

Ingredients

2 sticks room temperature butter

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon water

1 cup chocolate melts

Gold Star sprinkles

Silver Star sprinkles

White confetti sprinkles

parchment paper

Instructions:

Heat oven to 400°F. Combine butter, sugar, egg and extract in mixer.

Blend at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy. Add flour and salt, and blend at low speed until well mixed. Divide and use food coloring by mixing in each color.

To make the cookies, insert a 1M tip into pastry bag. Fill bag with cookie dough. If it’s hard to pipe add the 1 tablespoon water. Warming the piping bag with your hands will help to pipe out the cookies. Do this in a rotated motion on to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.